That sounds very cool! Wish I could attend. 

so academics should only study dead art forms? 

though if something's in your exact same language (no language studies required) and not more than 50 years old, you're not really making an effort to put yourself in the mindset of another culture. I can see the benefit society gets out of historians and even about people who can explain cultural/literary history, etc, but I don't see the justice behind someone playing GTA3, writing up their opinion (laced with suitable jargon of course) and collecting public money. Academics is supposed to be difficult (if not boring). 

Okay, I guess i agree with that.

But, I think video games is a pretty interesting and rich art form, and I would like somebody to be thinking deeply about it. Game reviewers rarely do, game makers are often too busy making games to write about it, and even when a reviewer or developer writes something really good about games, it's hard to find because there is no organization trying to collect or catalog all of that writing.

So I guess i'm saying since academics shouldn't be doing it, could we at least have some faux-academics to meet all of these needs? 

im doing my senior project on quake and how it learns you computer stuff :O 

I agree that that should be done (lol, I'm doing it, though I'm doing it for free and for fun).
I guess what I'm saying is that the people who should be doing that are journalists, culture writers, and more thoughtful reviewers who want to publish something more extended based on their work and experience. These people are a lot more in touch with current culture than academics. 

Your title's too long. Something easier to digest would be better. "The Lingering Legacy of id Software's Quake" alone sounds good to me. 

 

Anyway... this is what i waste my time on for the last ages. (Project has a strong tcl dependancy - see installation notes). http://scidvspc.sourceforge.net 

...want to go to Tronyn's talk!! 

Where is Tronyn's talk? We should all go along and be groupies. 

University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada - basically the centre of North America. 

Could you record it? :)


I need some serious input on the bounty idea. There is some negotiation about an advertisement deal on Quaddicted that might enable me to fund quite a bit.

It would taint the frontpage though, especially for new visitors. 

TRonyn, live internet broadcast plz. 

...basically the centre of North America.

Geographically, maybe... 

you're from Manitoba?


That sucks, dude. I meet so many people from there... in other cities.

But yeah, I agree about the live feed. 

Bounties often don't seem to work very well. I can't find a reference for this now though :/ 

http://www.celephais.net/board/view_thread.php?id=15861&start=263&end=270

Yeah, I'll be at Tronyn's talk. Funny thing is unis are the only place i take the back row. 

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html 

anyone have a program that can convert Heretic 2 .m8 files to some other format; gamespy no longer has h2utils.zip. I noticed this program Graphics Converter Pro supports heretic 2 m8, yet its shareware won't do batch conversions (fuckers) and I'm not manually converting all the Heretic 2 textures (I'm doing this because htic2.wad from Quaddicted only has maybe 1/3 of the textures if that). 

http://www.gamers.org/pub/idgames2/planetquake/hereticii/deadstar/h2utils.zip

Also check out http://sourceforge.net/projects/uhexen2/files/ 

I started converting the Heretic 2 tex a while back:

8-bit Q1 - http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/files/texture_wads/H2_To_Q1.zip

24-bit TGA - http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/files/texture_wads/H2_To_TGA_24.zip

I logically renamed the files so you could see the 24-bit versions IF your engine supported it. Some things may still need a little tweaking, however.

Let me know if you see any necessary changes.

Enjoy! 

Siberia? 

nt 

Info and download: http://www.simonoc.com/pages/design/maps_q3/focal.htm
Screenshot: http://www.simonoc.com/images/design/maps_q3/focal1l.jpg
Source files: http://www.simonoc.com/pages/design/maps_q3/focal_source.htm

The map was created in 3 weeks for the noghost competition and should be fun for a quick and frantic FFA match. The Bot file was optimized seperately in a different map to hopefully make any offline match fun.

The source files contain the map files, PSDs and various ASE models used to create the portalsky illusion. In order to load the map source file you will need to download both the final and source zip files.